Hi Again,
Unfiortunately I could not get the external openoffice importer management to work. When enabled, the openoffice importer control panel would not display, giving a velocity error in place of the page contents.
Can you post your xwiki log corresponding to this issue? Current error handling in velocity only displays a generic error message, you need to look at the logs to see what went wrong.
(2) Auto-start=yes resulted in a totally non working wiki, across all vhosts. It should die more gracefully.
It should not die at all. I will check this on 2.0M2 and get back to you.
It's true, officeimporter external oo server option semms to be busted. It's funny I fixed the exact same bug in a previous release but it seems it has been introduced again. It's not in officeimporter but in xwiki configuration which seems to fail to read configuration information for officeimporter application. I'm looking into it now. Thanks. - Asiri